Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Code is everything I thought poetry was, back when we were in school. Clean, expressive, urgent, all-encompassing. Fourteen lines can open up to fill the available universe.
Richard Powers
It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code.
Anonymous
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis
There's a fine line between being on the leading edge and being in the lunatic fringe.
Frank Armstrong
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!
Ovidiu Platon
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis